![]() Metheny's next album formalized this partnership and began the Pat Metheny Group, featuring several songs co-written with Mays the album was released as the self-titled Pat Metheny Group on the ECM record label. Metheny's next recording, 1977's Watercolors, was the first to feature pianist Lyle Mays, Metheny's most frequent collaborator. Metheny came onto the jazz scene in 1975 when he joined vibraphonist Gary Burton's band and recorded Bright Size Life with bassist Jaco Pastorius and drummer Bob Moses. After Metheny withdrew from the University of Miami in his first semester, he was offered a teaching position. ![]() Following his graduation from Lee's Summit High School, he briefly attended the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. Metheny was born and raised in Lee's Summit, Missouri, a suburb south-east of Kansas City. ![]() His style incorporates elements of progressive and contemporary jazz, post-Bop, jazz-rock fusion, and folk-jazz. One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works, and other side projects. The original image is sized 916x400 and weights 235KB.
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